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of the feudal lord, were obviously inapplicable in the case of a 
religious superior, and the only benefit which accrued to an eccle- 
siastical lord, in the case of military tenures, was the rare and 
uncertain contingency of the wardship of a minor; and against 
this advantage had to be placed certain undefined obligations, for 
in most, if not in all cases, the great religious houses paid the 
expenses of their knights when in the service of the King.* 
The manors or lands in possession of the monks at the date of 
Domesday were :— 
In Staffordshire — 
Burton and its members, Branstone, Shobnall, Stretton in 
Burton, Horninglowe and Wetmoor ; Anslow, Pillatonhall, 
Whiston (in Penkridge), Darlaston (in Stone), Abbots 
Bromley, Leigh and Field Iam, Okeover and Casterne, 
Hampton in Blithfield, and land in Tatenhill and Stafford. 
In Derbyshire they held— 
Cotes (Coton-in-the-Elms), Winshill, Bersicote (Brisling- 
cote ?t) Ticknall, Stapenhill, Appelby,{ Caldwell, Mickle- 
over, Littleover, Henover (Heanor), Findern, Potlock, 
and Willington. 
In Warwickshire— 
Austrey, and land in Wolston. 
The above list is taken from the Confirmation of Pope Lucius 
at p. vii. of the Chartulary.§ This specifies that all the lands 
named in it had been given to the monks by their founder, Wulfric 
Spott, or by William the Conqueror. These lands must therefore 
have been in the possession of the monks at the date of the 
* There is direct evidence of this in the case of the Evesham and Croyland 
Monasteries, and by analogy it may be assumed to be true of the other Houses. 
The Evesham Chartulary thus describes their military tenants :— 
Htc notantur milites et liberi tenentes de Abbatia de Evesham, multi injuste 
tefati, pauci vero juste. Isti nullum servitium faciunt Ecelesiea nisi servitium 
Regis, et hoc tepide.” 
And in the Feodary of A.D. 1166, the Abbot states after each of his Knights 
named, ‘‘ Abbas invenit ei expensas guamdiu fuerit in servitio Regis.” 
+ I take this to be Bearwardscote, a/éas Barrowcote, in Etwall parish.—ED. 
t The greater part of Appleby is in the county of Leicester; from entries 
in the Chartulary, I take it that the Burton monks’ estate in that parish was 
wholly in Leicestershire, and not in Derbyshire.—Ep. 
§ I have added Cotes to this list, the monks having been deprived of that 
manor between the date of Domesday and the Confirmation by Pope Lucius. 
